Poise

2019

Synopsis

A sad and restrained man lying on the bed in his poor room. Hesitates, ponder hypotheses in a cycle without deciding. Is arrested. In exhaustion all anguish equals. There is another man sitting at the window: he looks at him and the street, cold. Outside, a logically drawn city. Characters in broken situations. The key positions, the suspended sequences, are shown. The man almost decides - and they almost return, inside and out, to themselves and to the city, time and movement. Infinite dawn.

Bio-filmography of the director

Luís Soares was born in Lisbon in 1981. His first animated film, Any Other Man, premiered at the Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival in 2012, having participated in dozens of international festivals and shows where it won five prizes: António Gaio Prize at Cinanima 2012, Mikeldi de Oro at ZINEBI 2013 in Spain, Brand New Award at IndieLisboa, Special Mention of the Jury at Mumia - Udigrudi World Animation in Brazil and the Revelation Prize in the Portuguese Cinema Paths.

5 minutes
(expected duration)

Image: 16x9

Sound: Stereo

Format: HD

Animation

Crew

Director:

Luís Soares
Scriptwriters:

Luís Soares

Cátia Salgueiro

Graphic author:

Luís Soares

Producer:

Mário Gajo de Carvalho

Intention note

In this film, I am interested in exploring the moment of indecision, with its own tensions. It is a dramatically delimited moment in which there is no proper action in its general sense. Action and time seem to be suspended. The challenge is to give body (image, movement, sound, duration, texture, etc.) to this state that is as singular as ordinary, with its micro-actions, mental or emotional, its intermittences of wills and fears, its cycles that impede resolution and its phantasmagoria. In the limit, the duration of this film would be indefinite - that is, at least, the sensation that must last in its end.